Hedvig CEO and Founder Avinash Lakshman Hedvig Back in 2008, Facebook released Cassandra, a free new technology it had come up with for searching huge amounts of data (specifically, user inboxes).

In 2008, Facebook gave big data users a gift. The social network released Cassandra, its NoSQL, big data distributed data store to open source. Today, with the release of Cassandra 2.0, the gift ...